Links
- Reporting research
- Research methodology and statistics
- Editorial organisations and guidelines
- Professional organisations and associations
- Copyright information
- Research integrity and ethics
- Other useful links
Reporting research
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication
http://www.icmje.org/
CONSORT Statement
http://www.consort-statement.org/
ORION Statement
http://www.bsac.org.uk/_db/_documents/ORION_Checklist.doc
STARD Statement
http://www.stard-statement.org/
STRICTA
http://www.stricta.info/journals.htm
STROBE Statement
http://www.strobe-statement.org/
TREND Statement
http://www.cdc.gov/trendstatement/
RedHot Homeopathy Checklist
http://www.redhot-homeopathy.info
Good publication practice for pharmaceutical companies
http://www.gpp-guidelines.org
The PRIMER Collaboration
http://www.primercollaboration.com/Tools/tools.html
Practihc – Pragmatic Randomized Trials in Healthcare
http://www.practihc.org/
Trial bank project
http://rctbank.ucsf.edu/
MIBBI – Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations
http://www.mibbi.org/index.php/Main_Page
StaR Child Health (International Forum of Standards for Research with Children)
http://www.ifsrc.org/
Research methodology and statistics
Statistics resources (Bruce Weaver)
http://www.angelfire.com/wv/bwhomedir/stats.html
RD Direct - Research Flowchart
http://www.rdinfo.org.uk/flowchart/Flowchart.html
Survey and Questionnaire Design Resources
http://www.statpac.com/surveys/
Tom Lang. Twenty Statistical Errors Even YOU can Find in Biomedical Research Articles. Croatian Medical Journal. 45(4):361-370,2004
Editorial organisations and guidelines
ICMJE – International Committee of Medical Journal Editors: Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication
http://www.icmje.org/
WAME – World Association of Medical Editors
http://www.wame.org/
COPE – Committee on Publication Ethics
http://www.publicationethics.org.uk/guidelines
FAME editorial guidelines (Forum for African Medical Editors)
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2004/TDR_RCS_FAME_04.2.pdf
CSE - Council of Science Editors
http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/
EASE – European Association of Science Editors
http://www.ease.org.uk/
International Academy of Nursing Editors
http://www.inane.vcu.edu/
Professional organisations and associations
ALPSP - The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/
AuthorAID - supporting developing-country researchers in publishing their work
http://www.authoraid.info/
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)
http://www.inasp.info/file/55/homepage.html
International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP)
http://www.ismpp.org/
STM - International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers
http://www.stm-assoc.org/home/
Society for Scholarly Publishing
http://www.sspnet.org/home.aspx
SPARC – The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition
http://www.arl.org/sparc/
Copyright information
UK Copyright Service
http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk
US Copyright Office
http://www.copyright.gov/
Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/
Research integrity and ethics
Office of Research Integrity (US)
http://ori.dhhs.gov/
http://www.ukrio.org/sites/ukrio2//home/index.cfm
WAME ethics resources
http://www.wame.org/resources/wame-ethics-resources
Department for Business, Universal ethical code for scientists ( UK )
http://tinyurl.com/3dvyeu
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC, 2006):
Principles for Protecting Integrity in the Conduct and Reporting Of Clinical Trials
http://www.aamc.org/research/clinicaltrialsreporting/clinicaltrialsreporting.pdf
CODEX - rules and guidelines for research (online access to codes, laws, regulations, rules and guidelines).
Other useful links
Cochrane Collaboration
http://cochrane.org
James Lind Library - helping to understand fair tests of treatments in health care
http://www.jameslindlibrary.org
http://cochrane.org/resources/guide_to_online_collaboration.htm
MORE – McMaster Online Rating of Evidence
http://hiru.mcmaster.ca/More/AboutMore.htm
Instructions to Authors (Mulford Library, University of Toledo )
http://mulford.meduohio.edu/instr/
http://www.intute.ac.uk/
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